'Soul Purpose'
A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.
This is like bigotry week (although truth be told, the bigots seemed to have lost their ever-loving mind when Obama was elected) in the US. First, Haley Barbour now this mess.
But...I did not know the "gods" were aliens in Thor. Really? WTF have I been?
They mention it's science in the trailer.
Pure cinematic charisma: Romy Schneider's screen tests for Clouzot's unfinished L'Enfer.
I don't know another actress that has quite Romy's mix of beauty, warmth, wickedness, sensuality and play. But I'd like to see Cate Blanchett try.
I know I've mentioned it before, but Romy's on my short list of great under-appreciated beauties of the sixties along with Capucine and Charlotte Rampling. (All three of them having more than a whiff of decadence, I'd say.)
So Thor and Odin and Baldur and Loki and the Giants are all aliens? Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
Is this from an iteration of the comics, or original to the movie?
Apparently they did it in the comics too. Where they also had an Asian Asgard, but nobody's whining about that too loudly.
Remember, the Marvel Asgardians are one of Kirby's early versions of what would become the DC New Gods, who are explicitly Sufficiently Advanced Aliens.
I forgot how awesome Blake Edwards' Honorary Oscar acceptance was.
Is there an app that can excise Jim Carrey from that clip?
The Thing-inspired Xmas card: [link]
I've never seen The Thing, so I don't get it, but people who have seem to be digging this.